Famous Quotes & Sayings

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So you can imagine what happens when a mainland species gets introduced to an island. It would be like introducing Al Capone, Genghis Khan and Rupert Murdoch into the Isle of Wight - the locals wouldn't stand a chance.

Clive Barker

Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything...

Andre Johnson

I just need to go to like an island or something,

Ambrose Bierce

Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages, of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered.

Dolly Parton

Islands in the streams, that is what we are.

David Blaine

I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.

Robert Fortune

No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated.

We also have plans to set up similar systems in Neil and Havelock islands because the oldest recorded understanding of seismic phenomenon is from these two islands as published in a 1928 study in the Asiatic Society Journal.

William Shakespeare

That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.

Ashton Kutcher

Romance is sort of an island right next to care. When you care about someone and you listen to them and you hear them and you can feel them and you know just what's right, and generally it's something that will be very unimpressive to a room of strangers.

Arsene Wenger

I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost.

Jim Doyle

With this designation, we can maintain these islands as they are, guaranteeing they will not be developed.

Edward Thomas

We in the Virgin Islands work hard, but we play hard, too.

James M. Barrie

They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.

Garry Hynes

The odd thing about Cripple of Inishmaan is its never actually been performed on the island.

Kenneth Grahame

In midmost of the stream, embraced in the weir's shimmering arm-spread, a small island lay anchored, fringed close with willow and silver birch and alder. Reserved, shy, but full of significance, it hid whatever it might hold behind a veil, keeping it till the hour should come, and, with the hour, those who were called and chosen.

Jonathan Raban

Seattle is this curious liberal island.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, "and how can I get back?

Gavin DeGraw

I am the byproduct of an Ellis Island orgy, basically. I'm everything. I've got quite a mixture in me. I know a lot of it and I don't know some of it. I'm pretty mixed up, but mostly Russian and Irish.

Orhan Pamuk

I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with Dostoyevsky and Sartre, both great influences for me.

Novalis

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

John Hodgman

Here's the thing: I am not only a creature of civilization, I'm an asthmatic person. I will only live so long as I have stockpiled the proper inhalers. I'm effectively a cyborg. You know how in Jurassic Park, they bred those dinosaurs with the lysine deficiencies, so if they ever got off the island, they'd die? That's me.

Herman Melville

Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.

Henry David Thoreau

An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancyfor building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.

Esperanza Spalding

There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.

Cassandra Clare

Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.

Jerry Lawler

We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air, which was great. Although sometimes you get flashed by some puppies that you'd rather not see. They're more like mongrels

Jerry Seinfeld

We’re all trying to get to the same island, whether you swim, fly, surf, or skydive in, it doesn’t matter. What matters is when the red light [camera] comes on.

George C. Scott

If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip.

Jeanette Winterson

The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have done, when all I can handle is what I have done? The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life.

Fanny Kemble

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

Gretel Ehrlich

Islands are reminders of arrivals and departures.

Godfried Danneels

Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.